Madame John’s Legacy, Newcomb Pottery Exhibit

The Madame John’s Legacy museum in New Orleans — in simplest terms — is an example of how homes were built in late 1700s New Orleans, as it is believed to have been built in 1788 and survived the 1794 New Orleans fire. The home is French West Indies Colonial Creole, and due to flooding concerns, the nicer living areas were designed for the second floor, where one enters even today:

In the mid-1920s, it was sold to Stella Hirsch Lemann who recognized its architectural importance, and she made the house something of an artists colony. Some of the artists paid Ms. Lemann’s generosity back by making their own likenesses of the home. She eventually gifted the home and it operates as a Louisiana State Museum.